Usage:
No current usage.
(†Ferndale Sandstone (CA) replaced with Scotia Bluffs Sandstone of Wildcat Group. See Scotia Bluffs.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Occurs in central and southern Humboldt Co., northwestern CA (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Eel River basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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